State regulators say a Willie Horton-style campaign ad that suggested the first black member of the Wisconsin Supreme Court freed a child molester played so loose with the truth that the court's newest member should be disciplined for it.

By claiming that Democrat Barack Obama is "palling around with terrorists" and doesn't see the U.S. like other Americans, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin targeted key goals for a faltering campaign.

By claiming that Democrat Barack Obama is "palling around with terrorists" and doesn't see the U.S. like other Americans, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin targeted key goals for a faltering campaign.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney called on a Massachusetts Superior Court judge he appointed to resign after she released a convicted killer without bail, and the man allegedly killed a newlywed couple in Washington state.

Through the decades, presidents have appointed Supreme Court justices that seem to switch ideologies and don't turn out as planned. Legal historians speculate on why the views of the appointer and appointee do not always mesh and the decision awaiting President Bush.

A presidential election that has lasted a year and more, cost a billion dollars and divided the nation into two unyielding camps is likely to be settled by this: Two or three 90-minute encounters in college auditoriums.

The Republican-friendly police union in Boston is threatening to play "bad cop" at the Democratic National Convention this summer even as hometown candidate John Kerry prepares to accept his party's nomination for president.